Make changes to the storage infrastructure without disrupting applications

Enable non disruptive infrasctructure changes

Increase application availability and personnel productivity

Creates a tiered storage environment

Match the cost of the storage to the business value of the data, a key first step in managing information over its life

Improve ROI

Use a single set of copy services across different classes of storage

Reduces the cost of assuring business continuance and simplifies replication management

Reduce cost and complexity

Business benefits

Simplify your storage infrastructure with IBM TotalStorage® SAN Volume Controller (SVC). Designed to enable changes to the physical storage with minimal or no disruption to applications, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller combines the capacity from multiple disk storage systems into a single storage pool, which can be managed from a central point. This is simpler to manage, helps to increase utilization and improve application availability.

TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller's extensive support for non-IBM storage systems – including EMC, HP and HDS – enables a tiered storage environment to allow you to better match the cost of the storage to the value of your data. You can apply advanced copy services across storage systems from many different vendors to help further simplify operations. Now on its seventh release, TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller is designed to manage even larger and more diverse storage environments.

Product highlights

Combine the capacity from multiple heterogeneous storage systems into a single reservoir of storage which can be managed from a central point

Manage large storage environments through expanded scalability

Enable changes to the physical storage systems with minimal or no impact to the applications running on the hosts.

Reduce downtime for planned and unplanned outages, maintenance and backups